Guenther Uecker Furniture
German, b. 1930
Uecker was born in Wendorf, Mecklenburg. Uecker began his artistic education in 1949 when he took up studies at Wismar. He then went to the art school in Berlin-Weißensee and in 1955 to Düsseldorf, where he studied under Otto Pankok at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 1956 he began using nails in his art.
In addition to numerous Gruppo Zero exhibitions, Uecker has participated in many other exhibitions, including documenta 4, Kassel, Germany (1968), the Venice Biennale (1970), and numerous solos shows, including one at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1983), a retrospective at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich (1990), and another solo show at the Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany (2010). He had his first solo exhibition in the United States at the Howard Wise Gallery on West 57th Street, showing important work such as the kinetic New York Dancer I (1966). He designed the scenery for Richard Wagner's Lohengrin at Bayreuth (1979–82).
Uecker met the group ZERO with Heinz Mack and Otto Piene in 1960, artists who propagated a new beginning of art in opposition to the German Informel. He occupied himself with the medium of light, studied optical phenomena, series of structures and the realms of oscillation that actively integrate the viewer and enable him to influence the visual process by kinetic or manual interference. Uecker, Mack and Piene began working together in joint studios at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1962 and installed a 'Salon de Lumière' at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Other 'light salons' followed in Krefeld and in Frankfurt. Since 1966, after the group ZERO dissolved and a last joint exhibition, Uecker increasingly used nails as an artistic means of expression—a material that, until today, stands in the centre of his oeuvre. At the beginning of the 1960s he began hammering nails into pieces of furniture, musical instruments and household objects, and then he began combining nails with the theme of light, creating his series of light nails and kinetic nails and other works. a-x Zero Garden from 1966, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates his use of nails to create the illusion of movement. Light and electricity continued to be one of the main subjects and natural materials such as sand and water were included in his installations, resulting in an interaction of the different elements to create a sensation of light, space, movement and time.
Uecker's work can be found in the collections of major institutions worldwide, among them: the ZERO foundation and Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Calderara Foundation Collection, Milan; Courtauld Institute of Art, (London); Honolulu Museum of Art, Studio Esseci (Padua, Italy), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Von der Heydt-Museum (Wuppertal, Germany); Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice the Ulster Museum, Belfast; and the Walker Art Center, Minnesota.(Biography provided by Cerbera Gallery)
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Günther Uecker, Lichtungen IV - Abstract Art, Signed Woodcut Print
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Located in Hamburg, DE
Günther Uecker (German, born 1930)
Lichtungen IV, 1997/1998
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Günther Uecker (German, born 1930)
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Dimensions: 30 x 42 cm
Edition of 200: Hand-signed an numbered in pencil
Condition: Excellent
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Günther Uecke, Do it Yourself - Signed Multiple, ZERO, Abstract Art
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Günther Uecker (German, b. 1930)
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Günther Uecker (*1930), Lithograph, signed, 1993
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Located in Münster, DE
Günther Uecker (*1930), lithograph, created 1993, Ed. 45/100, numbered and signed, framed
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Günther Uecker (*1930), Lithograph, signed, 1979
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A Note on This beautiful work:
Günther Uecker was born in 1930 in Wendorf, Germany. He studied painting at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee from 1949 to 1953, and further pursued his artistic training in 1955 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Throughout the 1950s, Uecker cultivated a strong interest in repetitive practices and purification rituals, and became fascinated with the philosophies of Buddhism, Taoism, and Islam. He developed rituals of his own, including the lengthy, repetitive, meditative hammering of nails, and proceeded to translate this into his artistic practice. His nail-relief works exceed the limits of the two-dimensional plane and create a new realm for vision to explore the calculated patterns of light and shadow.
Uecker examined this effect further in the 1960s by introducing kinetic elements into his works through the use of engines, shifting his methodology from using precise, geometric patterns to more organic and irregular arrangements. In 1961, he joined the Zero Group founded by artists Heinz Mack and Otto Piene, who advocated for a new art form—a degree zero—to erase the destructive, violent forces by which human experience had come to be conditioned during the war, and which were expressed in the then-prevalent Art Informel style. The Zero Group made a large impact in the European postwar milieu, influencing a number of artists with similar ideas. Central to the movement were explorations of light, technology, and an expansion beyond traditional two-dimensional confines of the canvas, all of which are implicated in Uecker’s work.
The present work dates from this influential period.
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German painter, sculptor and kinetic artist, most of whose works incorporate nails and are painted white. Worked first with regular mathematical sequences of nails, then from 1960 introduced organic structures, and made his first revolving disc-shaped structures and his first light boxes. Experimented with oscillation patterns, with nailed chairs...
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Materials
Lithograph
Gespalten (Grenzverhältnisse)
By Guenther Uecker
Located in Kansas City, MO
“Gespalten (Grenzverhältnisse)”
Color lithograph, Year: 1983
Signed, numbered and dated by hand
Edition: 100
Size: 22.2 × 20.3 on 31.2 × 23.4 inches
Guenther Uecker:
German painter, sculptor and kinetic artist, most of whose works incorporate nails and are painted white. Worked first with regular mathematical sequences of nails, then from 1960 introduced organic structures, and made his first revolving disc-shaped structures and his first light boxes. Experimented with oscillation patterns, with nailed...
Category
1980s Contemporary Guenther Uecker Furniture
Materials
Lithograph
“Brett II”
By Guenther Uecker
Located in Kansas City, MO
“Brett I”
Color lithograph, Year: 1991
Signed, dated, titled, numbered or inscribed
Edition: 90 + e.a.
Size: 25.4 × 17.6 on 31.2 × 21.8 inches
Guenther Uecker:
German painter, sculp...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Guenther Uecker Furniture
Materials
Lithograph
Baum II
By Guenther Uecker
Located in Kansas City, MO
"Baum II", 1985
Medium: Woodcut
Signed, numbered and dated by hand
Edition: Probe
Size: 35.9 × 22.2 on 41.3 × 29.3 inches
Guenther Uecker:
German painter, sculptor and kinetic artis...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Guenther Uecker Furniture
Materials
Woodcut
Baum III
By Guenther Uecker
Located in Kansas City, MO
"Baum III", 1985
Medium: Woodcut
Signed, numbered and dated by hand
Edition: Probe
Size: 35.9 × 22.2 on 41.3 × 29.3 inches
Guenther Uecker:
German painter, sculptor and kinetic artist, most of whose works incorporate nails and are painted white. Worked first with regular mathematical sequences of nails, then from 1960 introduced organic structures, and made his first revolving disc-shaped structures and his first light boxes. Experimented with oscillation patterns, with nailed chairs...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Guenther Uecker Furniture
Materials
Woodcut
Guenther Uecker furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Guenther Uecker furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of paper and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Guenther Uecker furniture, although beige editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original furniture by Guenther Uecker were created in the modern style in germany during the 21st century and contemporary. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Gerald Scarfe, Helmut Newton, and Wolfgang Volz. Prices for Guenther Uecker furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $147 and can go as high as $2,800, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $2,800.